Address Practice As Social Action

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. OPEN Introduction: Address as Social Action Across Cultures and Contexts

   • Catrin Norrby, Camilla Wide

   Pages 1-12Open Access

3. Negotiating Address in a Pluricentric Language: Dutch/Flemish

   • Roel Vismans

   Pages 13-32

4. Communities of Addressing Practice? Address in Internet Forums Based in German-Speaking Countries

   • Heinz L. Kretzenbacher, Doris Schüpbach

   Pages 33-53

5. At the Cinema: The Swedish ‘du-reform’ in Advertising Films

   • Maria Fremer

   Pages 54-74

6. Address and Interpersonal Relationships in Finland-Swedish and Sweden-Swedish Service Encounters

   • Catrin Norrby, Camilla Wide, Jenny Nilsson, Jan Lindström

   Pages 75-96

7. First Names in Starbucks: A Clash of Cultures?

   • Johanna Isosävi, Hanna Lappalainen

   Pages 97-118

8. Address in Italian Academic Interactions: The Power of Distance and (Non)-Reciprocity

   • Maicol Formentelli, John Hajek

   Pages 119-140

9. The Last Word on Address

   • Jane Warren

   Pages 141-146

10. Back Matter

    Pages 147-151

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How we address one another says a great deal about our social relationships and which groups in society we belong to. This edited volume examines address choices in a range of everyday interactions taking place in Dutch, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Italian and the two national varieties of Swedish, Finland Swedish and Sweden Swedish. 



The chapter 'Introduction: Address as Social Action Across Cultures and Contexts' is oepn access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.

• Sociolinguistics
• address
• pragmatics
• Dutch
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Italian
• Swedish
• pluricentric languages
• intercultural communication
• cross-cultural communication
• variation
• computer-mediated communication
• higher education
• interaction
• advertising
• communication
• sociolinguistics
• discourse analysis

• Stockholm University, Sweden

  Catrin Norrby

• University of Turku, Finland

  Camilla Wide

Catrin Norrby, Stockholm University in Sweden Camilla Wide, University of Turku, Finland Maicol Formentelli, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy Maria Fremer, University of Helsinki, Finland John Hajek, University of Melbourne, Australia Johanna Isosävi, University of Turku, Finland Heinz L. Kretzenbacher, University of Melbourne, Australia Hanna Lappalainen, University of Helsinki, Finland Jan Lindström, University of Helsinki, Finland Jenny Nilsson, Institute for Language and Folklore, Gothenburg, Sweden Doris Schüpbach, University of Melbourne, Australia Roel Vismans, University of Sheffield, UK Jane Warren, University of Melbourne, Australia ?

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